Today's News

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
Authorities continue to probe a shooting that sent a man to the hospital Tuesday evening.
Officers with the Lancaster Police Department were dispatched to the 300 block of Willow Oak Circle shortly after 6:15 p.m. after multiple calls of gunshots fired in the area.
An officer arrived to find a 37-year-old man in a wooded area along Willow Oak Circle.

One of the marvels of modern society is the ability to read the views of various folks who contribute to newspapers all over the world. In case you missed it, we just celebrated National Newspaper Week.

According to the latest research, almost 70 percent of your neighbors have read either a printed newspaper or a cyberspace version in the last seven days.

I think it’s because the old black and white and “read all over” newspaper is still the most trusted source of local news we have.

On the morning of Oct. 2, 2011, I sat down with a cup of coffee and my copy of The Lancaster News.
I turned to the Faces and Places section and glanced at the date on page 1B. The date said Sunday, October 11, 2011. I began my panic attack. What happened to Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011? What happened to last week? Where am I? Should I not know where I am?

As the S.C. 9 traffic whizzed by, I was thinking maybe Mr. Williams did too good of a job as resident maintenance engineer for Lancaster County.
Mr. Williams, as I knew him, is the late Steve Clyburn Williams Jr., who worked 40 years with the S.C. Department of Transportation to make sure county roads were in good shape.
The way the nearby traffic rumbled by the Lancaster headquarters of the SCDOT, it was a challenge to hear.

The Lancaster County Board of Zoning Appeals overturned a county decision to revoke an Indian Land concrete plant’s right to operate in a local light industrial park.

The ruling, made during a BZA hearing Tuesday night on the nonconforming use status of Thomas Concrete of Carolina LLC, disappointed residents of nearby neighborhoods who have battled the plant, and others like it, for years.

If you have any expired coupons, they can still be used by military families overseas.

The Lancaster County Veterans Affairs Office has been collecting coupons since early September that are benefiting families stationed at a U.S. Army base in Vicennial, Italy. The staff's effort is part of the national Overseas Coupon Program, in which groups can “adopt” military bases abroad.

ROCK HILL – Lancaster High’s gut-check drive gave the Bruins plenty of reasons to hold their heads high with a major Class AAAA football victory Thursday night.

Bruins’ senior quarterback Shaq Williams capped what LHS coach Bennie McMurray called a “gut-check drive” with a yard plunge to lift LHS to a thrilling 23-21 win over No. 7 Northwestern at Rock Hill’s District Three Stadium.